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No. 521,016. Patented June 5, 1894.

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RICHARD B. CHAMBERS, OF- CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO CROSBY M. BLACK, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINATION PENCIL SHARPENER, GRINDER, PROTECTOR, AND ERASER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 521,016, dated June 5, 1894.

Application filed March 6, 1 894.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD B. CHAMBERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chester, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Improvement in a Combination Pencil Sharpener, Grinder, Protector, and Eraser, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a pencil sharpener, in which is arranged a longitudinal cutting knife, placed at a suitable angle within a tube, slightly above its base, and having a beveled opening or slot for the escapeof the shavings, and having its opening above the cutting knife, not confined, but left the full size of the tube, the sides of the tube having an oval or other suitably shaped opening on each side, around which is arranged a flexible or other belt of suitable material, having its inner side coated with emery, or its equivalent above which at the end of the tube, a pencil eraser is secured.

My invention has for its object, to provide an efficient device for sharpening pencils, that will be adapted for use with lead pencils and slate pencils, or their equivalent, mounted in wood, or any other material, and by the peculiar construction, to remove the liability of breaking the lead, or other material compos ing the pencil.

I attain the objects of my invention by the mechanism and peculiar construction, illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a. front side elevation, taken from the knife side. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing reverse side. Fig. 3 is an open elevation or side view. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the cutting knife tube and the cutting knife.

In Fig. 1, A A represent two guiding spring clips attached to the cutting knife tube B,

and forming a flange or base 0 for the knife tube or chamber B.

D is the longitudinal knife blade, securely fastened at a slightly angular position toward the center of the chamber B. This arrange ment of the cutting knife blade D removes the danger of cutting off or breaking the point of the pencil, and the shaving is planed off straight, and passed out by the beveled Serial No, 502,545. (No model.)

slot E. The pencil point, after passing the kn fe D has a free space above in the upper part ofthe chamber B, above the knife, and 1s maintai ed in avtrue and parallel position by the guides A A. The upper part of the chamber or tube B, above the knife, is out ,out on each side as shown by the dotted openings at F. See Figs. 2 and 3. In Fig. 1 these openings are concealed by the tube being on tlrely encircled by the flexible belt or sleeve G, having its inner side lined or coated with emery, or lts equivalent. On the pencil H be ng lnserted between and encircled by the guides A A and passed upward to the chamber or tube B, and rotated toward the cuttin knife D, the wood, or its equivalent, formin the acket of the pencil, will be planed OT,

and if too much pressure is brought to bear reduced to the desired degree, the construction of the tube or chamber B, permits of the point being pushed upward to a point at J, Fig. 2, opposite the openings F F, and the flexible belt or sleeve G being compressed and forced in or through the openings F F by the pressure of the operators thumb and finger. The inner side of the flexible belt or grinding sleeve G with its emery coatin comes n contact with the point of the peii oil, and by the applicationof the equal pressure brought to bear on the belt by the rip of thethumb and finger, the pencil on bging revolved, is given a smooth and finely fin-,

ished point. K K in Fig. 1 are two sprin guards, secured at their base, to guard a ainst liability of losing off the grinding sleeve G and are left detached at one end to facilitate removal, or for replacing with new ones when required.

Having described my invention, what I desirje t q rsecurke bg Letters Patent ise tu e having the clam in uid A A, and a cutting knife D, inciine l an i l larly toward the center of tube B, said tlibe having the openings F F on opposite sides and provlded with the spring guards K K the abrading sleeve G, and the beveled slot In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing :o i

witnesses.

RICHARD B. CHAMBERS.

Witnesses:

G. WHITNEY W001), O. M. BLACK. 

